Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Aloha is free.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.